Pencil Shavings Quotes

#1. The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.

Michael Chabon

#2. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.

Jonathan LaPoma

#3. The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Roald Dahl

#5. War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

#6. I understood how we long to believe in goodness, especially in the person we promised to love and honor. It isn't just about them, it is how we want to see ourselves. It says that we are good people, patient and kind.

Ann Patchett

#7. I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.

Andy Weir

#8. What is the blonde doing when she holds her hands tightly over her ears? Trying to hold on to a thought.

Various

#9. It's just hard now because ... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away. I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.

Jane O'Connor

#10. I ordered another rum St. James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink.

Ernest Hemingway,